Word: effect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students take notes and volunteer hints of their own. ("I use distilled water for drinking; it stores longer"; "We plan to evacuate as a group in our mobile homes, and pull them into a circle for a wagon-train effect.") Jim Miller, 33, an auto service department manager from Boles, Ky., came for the food preservation and weapons courses. He now resolves to do more home canning, and to teach his ten-year-old son how to handle a gun. "He likes the idea, but his mother doesn't," says Miller. Charles Harrison, 31, a scholarly-looking accountant, says...
...carrying a concealed pistol. Recalled Udall: "I went ahead, but I looked into every face and wondered, 'Is this going to be the one?' " Udall told this story not as an example of courage-or foolhardiness-but to illustrate how little effect the danger of assassination has had on presidential candidates' behavior, even after two decades of violence that have seen the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the crippling of George Wallace and two near misses on Gerald Ford...
...where in 1973, the Harvard and Radcliffe adminissions committees found themselves happily operating side by side under the same roof. They became so chummy that within little more than a year, they had merged into one Harvard-Radcliffe Office of Admissions and Financial Aid in order to put into effect the new equal access policy...
...once admitted, students shared the same University resources, the policy of separate admissions committees was "anachronistic." Although the committee's recommendation called for equal access to be instituted "as soon as practical that is for the admission of the class of 1980," the process of combining admissions committees, in effect, began more than a year before...
...With accepted. Before the merger, the 2.5:1 ratio of men to women left only 450 places for women. With equal access, however, all 1600 places are available. Schwalbe, now director of admissions and college counseling at The Dalton School in New York, says that after equal access took effect, she found she had more "conviction" in recruiting. "It was easier to encourage women to apply because there were so many opportunities," she adds...